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This cartoon really struck home. Years ago, as a new graduate driving from upstate to Manhattan for my first job, I was pulled over for speeding by a local deputy. He drove me at near 100 mph to a seedy office behind a hardware where a local JP fined me for doing 70mph in a 65mph zone. Broke as I was, I managed to barely pay the fine. Outraged as I was, I kept mouth shut for fear of being jailed. That was 40 years ago, but I never forgot that redneck judge and smirking deputy. Now I read where our corrupt state legislature has balked at reforming these small-town JP’s, most of whom are not lawyers, nor are they qualified to be legal secretaries. It figures.

Hey John … Where is the cartoon showing Harry Reid as a racist and detailing the double standard of Feinstein and others who accepted his apology and defended him? You know, the same people that in the past have called for the heads of Republicans, i.e. Trent Lott, who made less racist statements????

Dan, about the same thing has happend to me a few times.
Got a ticket for going 35 in a 30 in a small town. Not wanting to
get the points I got a lawyer to reduce it for me. The lawyer had trouble with the justice he was out all week cuting corn and my license got suspended because their office/barn didn’t respond to DMV.

Gunga, don’t hold your breath, waiting for the main stream media (read: liberally biased to the left) to be critical of Reid, for his racist remarks concerning Obama. The phrase “negro dialect” is not sufficiently racist that it offends when utterred by a white male Democrat. Of course, the term is sufficiently offensive that, if it had been used by a white male Republican, it would have been the cause of the derision and denouncement of the white male Republican who had used it.

Do you recall that Joe Wilson, a white male Republican was accused of racism for having said “you lie,” about Obama? “You lie,” is racist, to the left, despite the absence of any racial references, because it was said by a white male Republican. “Negro dialect,” was not racist, to the left, despite the racial reference, because it was said by a white male Democrat.

Do you recall white male Democrat Joe Biden’s famous remark: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”. This is an earlier example of the tolerance, of the left, for racist remarks by white male Democrats.

The double standard is there for all to see, and for the left to pretend that the double standard doesn’t exist.

JdR, until reep asked you to change the subject of today’s cartoon, I would never have felt comfortable requesting a cartoon from you. But, now, with reep’s request on record, I ask that you make tomorrow’s cartoon a comparison of the ways in which Democrats reacted to “you lie,” and “Negro dialect.” I believe that such a thought provoking cartoon may ignite a useful discussion on racism.

Thanks, reep, for the inspiration; and thanks JdR, for yourfefforts to meet my request!